San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-22
THEATRICAL TOPICS,
The Week Past In San Antonio-How
Theatre-Goers Fared.

| OhN iOl AitdAlb-kOGIb no "tll Ab AutAAlt
managers. Good companies have ap-
peared at the Grand and as good com
panies Away 8 are, were appreciated fully
by the public. Last Sunday night VIII
son q Rankin's MINISTRIES played their
farewell TO q good house, while on Mon
day night Michael Strogof captured a
large audience. Then there was a lull
In the play until pretty little Jennie
Geamans came and appeared Tor only ore
night, last night, at the Grand; she is a
bright, original little star, and is rising
rapidly toward the zenith of fame as q
rival OF the hitherto unRpprOsohable
Lolita. She Is full Of genius and has lots
OF ginger. Her playing is so well done
that It ID apparently unstudied. With a
passably good support, Jennie pleased
the entire audience last night and won
lots OF applause. She can
come again next year and receive an
ovation. Her singing Is sweet and her
banjo picking well done. Her dialect,
as rendered in several sOng-, Is good.
She brought down the hOuse 10 her song
OF LA PalOma" 1.-THE dove sung in
Spanish. The Larry" OF John 4.
burke, and the "Jinks" of Allen Du-
mOnd, were very well done, while Emily
Stoves Irish dialect was very naturally
| spoken.
The next company will appear at the
Grand next Monday night in around
The World" Tuesday afternoon mat
inee will be given and their closing per-
Torrance will take place Tuesday
night.
Sunday, the 3Oth, and Monday, 3lst,
Miss Florence (Bsby) BIndley will be
here.
The first opera company this season
to visit San Antonio will be CarletOn's.
They will be here the first week in De-
cember.
The following is inc cast OF the opera
comique merry War" to be put on
by orr amateurs:
Artemisla, princess of Malaspina. ...........
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Miss Edna Truax
violetta,countcss of LomeIlini ,...;,,..;,,;:....
Marchcsc Fippo, Sebastiani. ....."......,...
Umberto spinoa, colonel in charge OF the
Geuoese army ........... Mr.. johnson Morriss
taSS s6nl Rur"11" yS@ps sch M%6Ty
Forum Franchettl n bleman Mr. WI. Herf
Van Schclen, colonel in the service of the
Balthasar Groos, a Tulip Planter. ...-........
49,. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. W. ROte
Else, his wife. Miss Marie Hernandez
G nin Sergeants in Genoese service.
=. -. Mr.. G. Morts and Mr.. F. H. Douglass
RGFGfs %Si court ladies Miss MIS-: T. Morn aGra
Giovanni RanZi OF the Miss b. Welding
Agnes Colombia Princess Miss Lulu FlOry
Beisn ina! S a,i,, . Mss Miss Lizzie Campbell
Pamtlio, Podesta of Massa Mr., p. II. Shook
Ruperto understandable. F. NJ. Taylor
Macedonia Councilmen Mr.: A. Maruc6eau
NicOdemO OF Mr.. L. A. Kuehn
Basilio Massa Mr.. John Na0ler
Eustachio Mr.. Edgar Schramm Jr
and officers. soldiers, chaplain citizens,
peasants, fishers, servants, etc, etc
|. Act Camp OF the GenOese army before
Massa.
. Act The castle Malsspina.
3, Act. Mass Carara.
You'll pass me this evening, | sup
poser" said the chronic dead-head 10
Manager Rische the other day "Why.
certainly" said Ernest, with his most
engaging smile. "if you will just wait
on the corner OF the plaza until the per-
fOrmance is over, | will pass you with
pleasure.
Mr.. Charles Wells and Oliver DOud
Byron have purchased the English and
Australian success, The SOggarth,
high class Irish drama. Oliver Doud
Byron is favOTite in San Antonio, and
If he should appear in the drama here,
he would have crowded house.
When OsmOnd Tearle, the now Cele-
brated actor, first started to star the
provincial towns of England, he had
very meSg-e crowds. In speaking of
this. an admirer said, "But when he
came back again, he couldn't get the
people in" That" said a witty friend,
Seems TO have been the trouble in the
first place."
AS Manager Rische was about step
ping into one OF the numerous places
where they sell beverages which cheer,
but still inebTiate, he very suddenly
changed his mind. A young man with
a clerical appearance approached him
rs ne turned away, and said. Excuse
me, but | cannot help but congratulate
you on your resolution to turn away
from that place of sim" Pardon me-"
said Rische, "but saw two fellows in
there who knew would strike me for
desd-head tickets.
The male members OF q company of
which the witty sOubrette, Nellie Nc
Henry, was connected, were addicted to
the intoxicating game of "draw" On
one occasion, after performance, a
game was in progress at the hotel. A
card sharp got into the game, and was
caught cheating. The actors took him
up and pitched him out of the twO.stOry
window. Nellie, with womsn's char
acteristic tenderness, ran down 10 see
what she could do for the man. "Oh," he
groaned, as she reached him, What
shall dO?" DO" said she, never play
so high again"
Mr.. Miner the New York manager,
seems to bank high on Mrs. Potter. She
is, in his estimation, away above Lang
try. And yet she might not be much of
an actress.
Oliver Doud Byron's season begun at
Louisville, n.y., on the 18th inst.
Pauline Markham will not star this
season, but will play leading business.
Myra Goodwin, the clever little sou
brette, has a new play this season.
"PhilOpene," by Kidder, the successful
dramatic 8u thor.
"HOnest little Emma Abbott" is re-
oeiving good deal of free advertising
for the stand she took in the Nashville
church in defence of her sister artistes.
Well, San Antonio has a warm feeling
for the dear little woman, and we all
feel like giving her the right
hand OF fellowship, and some of the
young old fellows who sit in the front
rows on leg show nights. would even be
pleased to give her an emotional kiss.
John K Ince, of"Fun in a Boarding
School" fame, who in connection with a
handsome little soubrette, captured our
Bohemian friend r. Fl. Rose, and with
him the friends Of the Bohemian club, ia
favorite speech of Sergeant BuZfuz in
Bardell VS.. Pickwick, to admiring audi
enoes in the east.